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by Rob @ 52 Novels on February 21, 2008

Looks like you’re new here. Get all the fun of 52 Novels as it happens and subscribe by e-mail or subscribe using your favorite RSS feed reader. Might as well. Don’t cost nothin.Did you read THE LINCOLN LAWYER by Michael Connelly?
Is it in your TBR pile right now?
If you answered “yes” to either of those [...]

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The six best novels of 2007

by Rob @ 52 Novels on September 21, 2007

Mmmkay. That’s headline’s not entirely true. It should read, “The six best novels I read between January and June in 2007.”
But let’s face facts here: that one was too damn long, and it’s really not very good.
I’m hoping the list is. And, by the way, these are in a particular order.

THE LAST ASSASSIN, by Barry [...]

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Do book blurbs matter?

by Rob @ 52 Novels on September 19, 2007

That’s the question raised in the Sunday, September 16th, 2007, edition of The Denver Post, in a story called “Not all blurbs are created equal.”
This big, splashy article contends that blurbs do, in fact, matter.
Cathy Langer, lead buyer for the Tattered Cover bookstores, said that blurbs serve any number of useful purposes. As a reader, [...]

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THE OVERLOOK, by Michael Connelly

by Rob @ 52 Novels on May 31, 2007

23 When Ed McBain died a couple of years ago it meant that everyone else on the list of awesomely great living police procedural writers moved up one spot.
For my money, there was wide gap between McBain’s spot atop the list and the number two… which isn’t saying that that number two was a [...]

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